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Ready made chickens from the grocery store with 90 second Uncle Bens microwave rice.
Fish sticks and french fries. Or baked fish if you have a few spices handy (just cover the pans with foil so you can toss it out after and don't have to clean the pan.
Spaghetti. One pot and a colander. Or any style pasta with any style sauce, can fancy it up a bit :)
Do you have a crockpot? There's a lot you could do with that that's pretty easy if you've got time.
Soup and grilled cheese. You can make cheapo tomato soup amazing with some good spices. And good quality bread and cheese can make delicious grilled cheese--which you can also fix up with spices, tomatoes, etc.
We have a crock pot. I don't want anything cooking during the day because of the dust and it'll be harder to clean without hot water.
Sandwiches. Lots of Sandwiches. Hardboiled eggs = no messy pot... Lean cuisines? Iknow I'm not much of ahelp.
I would get frozen meals. Only clean up is utensils. Or you can buy plastic ones. Or sandwhiches. If it's going to be for awhile, I would steer away from unhealthy frozen meals, but for a couple nights I'd just do that. Sandwhiches are an awesome idea though! And a lot healthier haha. Buy paper plates?
College student here! Frozen dinners, pizza, spaghettios, canned soup, and mac n cheese! And occasionally poptarts. Lol, unless you mean meals for people who aren't $30k in debt... ;)
Thanks ladies! I graduated college in '05 so it's been a while since I cooked simple meals!
We just had rotiserie chicken and pasta salad. One pot, one utensil, one knife, one cutting board. I found our paper plates and plastic cups. Not too bad!
Canned chilis and soups, lean cuisine, pretty much any meal thing in the freezer, order pizza. Its gonna be hard to eat health in your circumstances....how long is this gonna last? :)
BBQ & buy paper plates
frozen dinners/pizza
hope it is all put together soon
you could do something fish in a sack. you use parchment paper and seal in fish and other stuff, and it doesn't make a mess, you just discard the parchment after cooking. you could probably do other meats as well
@bestbuddies: We're having some plumbing done tomorrow, so hopefully tomorrow is the last day without hot water. Then the floor has to be redone in the kitchen - not sure when that will be done...
They make crockpot liners now - they make cleanup really easy. You might want to check that out, if you could figure out a way around the dust...
I was just going to suggest the crockpot liners! i bought a new crockpot this weekend because the lining of the stone wore down in my old one, so I wanted to prevent that from happening again. I bought the Reynolds liners at Target for like 2.50 for a package of 4. If you go the crockpot route, check out the crockpot 365 blog. There are hundreds of super easy crockpot recipes and I've never been disappointed.
http://www.reynoldspkg.com/reynoldskitchens/en/product.asp?prod_id=3200
I'm really big on roasting veggies. With one cookie sheet and some tin foil, you can cut up a whole cauliflower, baby carrots, zucchini... anything really. Drizzle with olive oil, S&P, then roast at 450 until browned and delish. Dump it all in a big tupperware and you can eat it hot or cold for your sides.
Best of all, you can just fold up the foil, wipe off the pan, then roast chicken on the same cookie sheet with another piece of foil! You could also broil shrimp or fish that way... I love Reynolds Wrap!
Our go-to for our busy evenings are usually a frozen lasagna or "cook in the bag" microwave meals.
But seriously - crock pot liners? I'm going to check that out! Mainly because the stone is SOOO heavy, making it difficult to wash.
Lately, our go-to meals have been a one-pan affair with just some meat, onion, shredded cabbage and other veggies stir-fried together with some salt and pepper and mustard. It sounds odd but its SO GOOD. We just call it "hash" and throw in whatever meat and veg we have lying around. Sometimes we eat it carb-free, sometimes we eat it with rice, sometimes I just add a cooked potato to it.
Our favorite combination is this: First nuke a small potato in the microwave for 3 minutes, then chop it up and add to a skillet with a slice of bacon chopped. Let the bacon crisp up and brown with the potato. Then we add a 1/4 lb of ground beef and a small onion and saute it with the bacon and potatoes. Then we add about 3 cups of sliced cabbage (or coleslaw mix with carrots or broccoli slaw in the bag) and about 1/2 cup of drained sauerkraut. Then when everything is softened and cooked through (about 10 minutes later), I stir in a few tablespoons of spicy brown mustard. Husband LOVES it and it reheats perfectly for lunch. Sometimes we eat leftovers for breakfast by putting a fried egg on top.
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Our kitchen is all torn up and we have no hot water. I am trying to come up with a meal that has little to no prep and requires minimal washing to tools/pots. Any ideas?